Joshua Wong Said to Give Talk in America

Joshua Wong Said to Give Talk in America
Joshua Wong, student leader, shouts during tens of thousands of protesters march for the real universal suffrage on Feb. 1, 2015 in Hong Kong. Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images
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The Umbrella Movement’s poster boy could be giving a talk on the pro-democracy campaign—8,000 miles away from Hong Kong.

Joshua Wong, the leader of Scholarism and most prominent face of the 79-day long student-led Occupy protests in Hong Kong, is headed to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Feb. 23 on the invitation of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

The 18-year-old college student will speak in a seminar entitled, “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement in Regional Perspective,” along with Yu Au-loong, a Hong Kong activist, and Wu Jieh-min, a researcher at Academia Sinica, a Taiwan academic institution.

Larry Ong
Larry Ong
Journalist
Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.
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